Well, now your city needs your help. Because Detroit has been to "hell and back" -- in real life and the movies.
Remember when we were menaced by a European corporation with evil dreams of domination and untested technology?
No, I don't mean Fiat's takeover of Chrysler; I mean Omni Consumer Products' fictional takeover of our police in 1987's "RoboCop."
And what have we ever done to celebrate our cyborg defender, Murphy/RoboCop?
Tell Mayor Bing that his curt dismissal of a RoboCop statue for Detroit -- the very dismissal that made thousands realize how much they secretly wanted to see such a statue -- this cannot and will not stand.
Maybe it started as a joke -- a rogue tweet -- but it's something much more than that now. It's a movement.
Open your hearts. Open your pocket books.
This is the Motor City. This is what we do.
Thank you. And God Bless Detroit.
2 comments:
At first I thought this post was written by Rex Otto posing as the Marquis. But then I realized Rex would've pushed the vision beyond the boundary of the outrageous to some place outrageously sublime--such as proposing a monumental statuary tableau of Robocop battling dinosaurs (or the Japanese monster-villains of Godzilla movies), a postmodern Laocoon to entice kitsch-lovers the world over to come visit the Motor City. It's more fun to imagine the burned-out carcass of the city as the battleground of a mythic battle than the ravages of a post-industrial econonmy.
About that fantastic Chrysler ad, I've got lots to say, but perhaps in another post.
It's heartening to see Le Marquis come out of Clock retirement for such an important issue (though I imagine things are a little slow at Reuters since Miley Cyrus quit tweeting).
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